Tuesday police news

Published 7:00 pm, Monday, March 17, 2003

Woman killed when struck by vehicle

SAGINAW COUNTY  A 54-year-old Hemlock woman died after a Monday afternoon accident on South Fordney Road near Spencer Road.

Christine Novak was driving a van on Fordney Road when for an unknown reason, she stopped the van. Just after Novak got out of the van, a vehicle headed north on Fordney attempted to pass the van and struck Novak.

The driver of the second vehicle was John A. McInerney, 24, of Burt.

The Saginaw County Sheriffs Office is investigating the accident.

Woman arrested after pursuit

MOUNT PLEASANT  A 28-year-old woman from the Mount Pleasant area was arrested at the end of a pursuit Monday night, reports the Michigan State Police at the Mount Pleasant post.

Troopers responded to a fight at the Crossings Trailer Court on Broadway Street when a suspect in the fight took a vehicle without permission and left the area. The driver of the vehicle did not stop when signaled, and tried to elude troopers.

During the pursuit, the driver began using the vehicle to ram the patrol car.

The suspect turned into a restaurant parking lot, where she placed the vehicle in reverse and rammed the patrol car again. Another trooper used his patrol vehicle to pin the suspect into the vehicle she was driving.

After being extracted from the vehicle, the woman continued to fight with troopers.

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She was arrested on charges of drunken driving, fleeing and eluding, resisting and obstructing, felonious assault and unlawfully driving away an automobile.